Welcome to the Institut für Informations­verarbeitung!

We are living in the era of information: sharing and sending pictures, videos and multimedia data over the network has become part of our
everyday lifes. This demands for information processing algorithms to encode, transmit, enhance and extract meaningful information from
multimedia content. At our Institute we conduct cutting-edge research in the fields of audio and video signal processing, computer vision and machine learning.
Broadly speaking, this involves designing intelligent coding algorithms to extract relevant information from the data.

Humans constantly extract meaningful information from visual data almost effortlessly. It turns out that simple visual tasks such as
recognizing persons, detecting and tracking objects or understanding what is going on in the scene are extremely challenging problems
for a computer. Training computers to process information as humans do has many potential applications in fields such as communication systems,
medicine, artificial intelligence, robotics, surveillance, entertainment or sports science. It is therefore our ultimate goal to be able
to emulate the human visual system with computational algorithms.